D. Tzanakopoulos: Here and now we are fighting for the great progressive change that the country needs

For a “political move necessary and imperative after another catastrophic failure of the Mitsotakis government”, spoke the secretary of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, speaking on the radio station and referring to the motion of censure filed by the government of Alexis T .

Commenting (On Red 105.5) yesterday’s statement by the government spokesman that the motion of censure was a predictable move, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos attributed “embarrassment” to the government. “However, if you read this statement from the other side, it means that even the government itself acknowledges that it has made them a mantra. Even they themselves recognize the right of the request for this government to leave,” he noted meaningfully. secretary of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance.

“In the past few days we have witnessed another episode of the collapse of the staff state, this communication creation of Mr. Gerapetritis is now collapsing like a paper tower. And the creator himself follows in this metaphorical cliff”, pointed out Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. “Mr. Gerapetritis is now in an extremely miserable position within the government but also in public opinion, after what has seen the light of day for his strange conversations with Mr. Fourthiotis,” he stressed. “A man that the government still characterizes as a journalist, even though we all know he is much less or much more than that,” he said.

“Both the executive branch and its legal creator have now gone to the level of ridicule,” he said, “because all the structures of the state apparatus have collapsed in any crisis that has tried to intervene, whether we are talking about the summer fires or for last year’s Medea, either for the floods in the fall, or we are talking about last year’s floods in Karditsa where people have not yet received their compensation “. “Today, Athens is in this position again, when four days after the snowfall, one can hardly move on many streets of the city, especially in areas around the Municipality of Athens,” said Dimitris Tzanakopoulos.

Regarding the pandemic, he underlined that “it is still sweeping, yesterday we had 113 dead, every day we mourn over 100 losses and we have exceeded 23,000 dead”. “For another week we are at least double the number of losses per million inhabitants compared to the rest of the EU countries, the NSS is collapsing, while – as Mr. Gerotziafas stated – the number of all covid hospitalizations at the moment is at “a higher level since the onset of the pandemic,” he said. “All of this, while today we are supposed to be at the end of the pandemic – that is what Ms. Gaga had said,” he said, adding that “this prediction turned out to be tragically wrong and sadly inaccurate.”

“Of course there is the issue of accuracy,” said Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, noting that “yesterday it became known that Greece is the third most expensive country in the current, in the European Union.” “Household incomes are falling, while last week we saw a report saying that the purchasing power of the average wage has fallen by about 14%. And as prices rise, that number will get worse,” he said. “there is a greater reduction in purchasing power than the minimum wage.” “The government, however, insists that it does not take any substantial measures, it only proceeds with piecemeal, communicative moves, which in no way can reverse the flow of things.”

“For all these reasons – for the institutional decline, for the collapse of the executive state, for the accuracy it sweeps but also for the pandemic it reaps – we conclude that this government is dangerous and must leave,” Dimitris Tzanakopoulos underlined. He added: “in this context, we submit the motion of no confidence in Parliament, which we expect all parties to vote in favor.”

Referring to yesterday’s position of Nikos Androulakis on the attitude of KINAL / PASOK towards the motion of censure, he noted that “his line was not clear, on the one hand he states that he will vote in favor of the motion of censure, on the other he claims that it is not now “Time for elections and Mr. Mitsotakis must remain prime minister – unless Mr. Androulakis has something else in mind that he does not tell us.” “Either you vote for a motion of censure and with care to save human lives, you claim the formation of another political correlation or, otherwise, you try to manage the contradiction of your policy through communication”, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos pointed out meaningfully.

“The impasses of the politics of ND and Kyriakos Mitsotakis are huge and the great progressive and democratic change is closer today than ever,” concluded the secretary of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance.